Commanders fire manager over comments on NFL players Roger Goodell and Jerry Jones

The Washington Commanders fired vice president of content Rael Enteen after a video surfaced online in which he criticized the team's players for their homophobia, accused Jerry Jones of racism and claimed that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was a “$50 million puppet” controlled by the league's owners.

Additionally, Enteen made crude remarks about the Commanders fan base and football fans in general, calling them “high school educated alcoholics” and “mouth breathers.”

Enteen was initially suspended by Washington on Wednesday after the video made the rounds on social media after being posted by the O'Keefe Media Group. The comments were made during a conversation with an undercover reporter he met on a dating app, who secretly videotaped their encounter.

Enteen pointed out that Roger Goodell is merely an expensive puppet of the owners of the NFL teams and singled out Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, as the one who runs the league.

“I don't think the NFL commissioner hates gays or blacks. Jerry Jones, who actually runs the NFL, hates gays and blacks, in my opinion,” Enteen told the reporter.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Commanders announced that they had suspended Enteen. He was fired on Thursday following an internal investigation.

“The language used in the video contradicts our values ​​at the Commanders organization,” a team spokesperson told the Washington Post.

James O'Keefe, founder of the O'Keefe Media Group, told the Associated Press that Enteen's videos were recorded on two different days in June.

Enteen had been with the Commanders since 2020 and had previously spent some time in the New York Jets organization.